Bobbi-Bobbi
Ringkasan
Bobbi-Bobbi adalah ular raksasa leluhur dalam mitos suku Binbinga dan Anula di Australia utara; ia menciptakan kelelawar buah dan, menurut satu kisah, bumerang pertama.
Bobbi-Bobbi is a huge ancestral snake in the myths of the Binbinga and Anula peoples of northern Australia; he created flying foxes and, in one telling, the first boomerang.
Kisah dan tradisi
Dalam mitos suku Binbinga di Australia utara, Bobbi-Bobbi adalah makhluk gaib yang hidup di langit pada Masa Mimpi (Dreamtime). Ia ular raksasa, mirip Ular Pelangi (Rainbow Serpent), dan pada mulanya baik hati kepada manusia. Spencer dan Gillen mencatat Bobbi-bobbi juga sebagai ular leluhur dalam suku Mara dan Anula, dan menulis bahwa leluhur semacam ini dianggap benar-benar hewan, bukan manusia. Menurut satu versi, dari langit ia melihat manusia memerlukan lebih dari air, lalu menciptakan kelelawar buah untuk mereka makan. Ketika kelelawar terbang terlalu tinggi, ia melepas salah satu tulang rusuknya dan memberikannya kepada manusia sebagai bumerang pertama. Dua lelaki melempar bumerang itu hingga merobek lubang di awan; Bobbi-Bobbi terkejut sehingga gagal menangkapnya, bumerang itu jatuh dan membunuh mereka, dan sejak kematian pertama itu ia menjauh di surga. Dalam kisah yang dicatat Spencer dan Gillen dari tradisi Binbinga, dua anak laki-laki disunat di Akuralla di Sungai Macarthur. Ular Bobbi-bobbi mengirim sekawanan kelelawar buah, lalu dari bawah tanah melemparkan salah satu tulang rusuknya ke dataran sebagai bumerang; bumerang itu dilemparkan ke langit dan membuat lubang besar. Ketika bumerang itu jatuh dan tertancap di tempat sang ular bersembunyi, anak-anak itu tenggelam, ditarik ke bawah, dan dibawa ke Pulau Waliangu di kelompok Pellew. Dalam tradisi Anula, Bobbi-bobbi melewati wilayah mereka; di Kepulauan Pellew sang ular membuat sebagian pulau dan menyatakan sebagian milik Roumbaria dan sebagian lain milik Urtalia, dan di Aninjira Bobbi-bobbi jatuh sakit dan melepaskan Urtalia.
Among the Binbinga people of northern Australia, Bobbi-Bobbi figures in myth as a supernatural being that dwelt in the heavens during the Dreamtime. He is a huge snake, much like the Rainbow Serpent, who at first treated humans kindly. Spencer and Gillen also record Bobbi-bobbi as an ancestral snake in the Mara and Anula tribes and write that such ancestors are regarded as having been distinctly animals, not human beings. In one version, from the heavens he saw that humans needed more than water, so he created flying foxes for them to eat. When the bats flew too high he removed one of his ribs and gave it to humans as the first boomerang. Two men hurled the boomerang and tore a hole in the clouds; Bobbi-Bobbi was so startled that he failed to catch it, it fell and killed them, and since this first death he has remained aloof in heaven. In the story Spencer and Gillen record from the Binbinga tradition, two boys were circumcised at Akuralla on the Macarthur River. The snake Bobbi-bobbi sent a mob of flying foxes and, from underground, threw one of his ribs on to a plain as a boomerang; it was thrown into the sky and made a great hole. When the boomerang came down and stuck where the snake lay hidden, the boys sank, were dragged down, and were taken to Waliangu Island in the Pellew group. In the Anula tradition Bobbi-bobbi passed through their country; in the Pellew Islands the snake made some of the islands and declared some to belong to Roumbaria and others to Urtalia, and at Aninjira Bobbi-bobbi was taken ill and threw out Urtalia.
Fakta utama
- Budaya / Culture
- Tradisi Aborigin Australia
- Kawasan / Region
- Oseania
- Negara / Country
- Australia
- Klasifikasi / Classification
- Dragon
- Habitat
- Sky
- Kemampuan / Abilities
- Menciptakan kelelawar buah, Membuat pulau
Nama lain / Alternate names
Bobbi-bobbi
Tahukah kamu? / Did you know?
Menurut satu versi, bumerang pertama adalah tulang rusuk Bobbi-Bobbi sendiri.
In one version the first boomerang was Bobbi-Bobbi's own rib.